By Dan Hagen
Fox News is a
fierce and relentless advocate for all 14 elements common to fascist regimes.
Those are nationalism; disdain for human rights; using scapegoats to direct
hatred; avid, bootlicking militarism; rampant sexism; a controlled, dishonest
mass media; panicked obsession with national security; religiosity used for
political manipulation; corporate power worshipped; labor power suppressed;
contempt for intellectuals, education and the arts; obsession with crime and punishment;
rampant cronyism and corruption and fraudulent elections.
Tune in to
Fox News at any given moment and the odds are extremely high that one or more
those propaganda points is being peddled -- whether it’s Hooters Girls being
interviewed about their economic views on deregulation, Wonder Woman and
Superman being attacked as “un-American,” Fox’s political desk falsely calling
the 2000 election for Bush in Florida, a Fox pundit “joking” that Obama or
Pelosi should be assassinated or a “news panel” sagely discussing whether
Barack Obama and his wife engaged in a “terrorist fist bump.”
By the way, the Fox News whine about Superman was that "the American way" had been dropped from the goals of Superman's never-ending battle. Actually, that was NOT included in the 1940s radio series or movie cartoons or in the 1960s cartoon series on CBS, where it became "truth, justice and freedom" (really more to the point). It was only on the 1950s McCarthy era TV series that "the American way" was added, and the reason was obviously jingoist appeasement of the McCarthy witch hunters.
ReplyDeleteYou mean like plastering "Under God" and "In God we Trust" all over our currency and in our Pledge of Allegiance? Yeah... I remember that Golden Era of Paranoid Jingoism...
DeleteWhy Fox News is total garbage.
ReplyDeletehttp://www.forwardprogressives.com/why-fox-news-is-total-garbage/